Win a Moleskine Colour a Month Daily Planner 2010!

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The year 2009 has been an excellent year for the Moleskine notebook. They’ve expanded their product line, and more people Philippines included, are using it to expound their creativity.

Avalon.ph has been a regular destination for competitively priced Moleskine notebooks. We’ve quickly sold out our stocks of the Moleskine 2010 planner — except for one.

To thank all those who have patronized our website the past 11 years (yes we’re that old), as well as a welcome to those who are visiting Avalon.ph and its blog for the first time, we’re giving away the last Moleskine 2010 planner we have!

a) Answering directly in the comments section below gives you one (1) point.

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b) Answering in your blog with a link back to this post gives you three (3) points. You must indicate in the comments section below where to find your blog (with your answer). AND, very important, you must spell Moleskine properly in your blog post, do not forget the “E”.

c) One (1) point when you use your activetwitter account (as of 11/30/09) and tweet about this contest. Make sure you include the #avalonph hashtag for me to easily track your tweet. Please take note that I cannot track ‘protected’ twitter accounts. If you have one and intend to avail of this extra point you should know what to do (follow avalonph). Exact format of tweet should be as written below in order to qualify:

You may tweet using your own variation as some of you like to share stuff like this on twitter, however they will not count as an entry. No spamming, no twitter cheating (using both personal & corporate/shared accounts). In short, play fair.

d) if I like your entry, you get plus two (2) points. This is purely my unbiased, unbribable and fair discretion.

All entries for additional points should be verifiable. Maximum available points is six (6). All entries will be summarized before the electronic raffle to be done through random.org’s List Randomizer or something similar.

Too much work? Satisfied to submit a silly, rushed, boring entry just for the sake of submission? Think again, up your chances to win this:

This contest/sweepstakes will run from December 1, 12:01am until December 15, 9:00pm Manila time. Sweepstakes is only open for those with a Philippine-based address that’s serviceable by major couriers.

Sweepstakes winner will be announced before 8:00am December 16. Winner must give their contact information before 12nn December 18. We will exert best effort to communicate with the winner, but if efforts fail we will use our discretion in choosing a new winner. Remember, this is a 2010 Planner so it is essential that the winner receives the item before 2010! We hope that’s clear for everyone especially those planning a long vacation this Holiday season.

Loophole or oversight regarding rules- common sense apply. Avalon.ph is the SOLE arbiter to decide on issues with regards to this contest/sweepstakes.

2009 has been a rollercoaster-ride for me. There were ups and there were downs. It’d be easier to say I’m thankful for all the ups I’ve went through this year: a new apartment, a rekindled love affair, road trips to new places, a promotion at work and lots and lots of new stuff. But it was mostly the downs I’m most thankful for because it gave my life a different dimension: a break-up, a family member leaving the country for good, a failed career option, days when I was really broke. It’s because of stuff like this that I was able to rise up and have the courage to live on. 2009 may have been hard, but I know 2010 will be better.

This year has been akin to an awakening for me. So many things were stirred up in me that I’ve never thought was possible & I’m truly a better person now. I’m thankful for love & loss, the ups & downs, the peace & insanity… All dualisms, everything in between… They make life like a colourful parade — and we all dance (-:

I am also thankful that during the typhoon Ondoy I was with my husband and daughter and fortunately we went to the mall early so we never experienced the flood at home. I’m grateful that we were together as a family and we survived that incident without any casualty.

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I am thankful for the blessings that I have received this year… the inspirations for my blogs and craft which are my comics and the novel I am writing. Also the trials that I have endured… even sometimes it rocked me to the core, I still woke up everyday and felt I am still alive and everything I have encountered makes life more happy.

i’m thankful for having a blog. though i have a handful of friends, there are times that i really feel lonely. of course i got a loving family but aside from them, everybody needs a friend. and that’s what my blog has been doing for four years now. it’s been there to accompany me, listen to my problems when nobody seems to care. 2009 is a bit special since the magnitude of my loneliness and emptiness fall down on me so sudden.

another thing i’m thankful for are bloggers like you giving away free stuff like this. this is my second time joining a contest and hopefully this time, i’ll win. besides, i need color in my life, might as well have color notes instead… 🙂

I am thankful for my newfound friends; the organization that I had recently joined and became a part of; the wonderful books that I’ve read; the deadly exams that I’ve managed to pass; the late night-outs with people whose company I enjoy; and my family.

I’m thankful for being alive because I cross C5 almost every day. Even with a Pasig police helping me cross, the cars still zoom right past you as you’re crossing the street. So thank you, God for keeping me alive, and thank you Pasig police, for helping me cross the street. And thanks to avalon.ph for the most awesome books!

So, this year I am thankful for not being broken. For not having to go through that emotional roller-coaster again. For being able to make the right decisions- if not all the time, but at least most of the time. For having good friends, who have helped me through thick and thin. For having to love and be loved. For all the people who supported me to change for the better.
2009 is indeed one big leap.
I’m thankful most importantly, that 2009 happened.

1) I graduated from college–bonus was I had honors;
2) my friends graduated with me and now we’re all (okay, except one, who’s taking postgraduate courses) yuppies, earning our own keep and staying fabulous;
3) my whole family is still intact and business is thriving;
4) my stories are now being read by more than twenty people, up from seven, haha;
5) even if I lost my phone last May, I was able to save up and buy a new one;
6) even though I’ve been single for so many years now, I am showered with the love from my family and friends; and
7) I’m still alive, able to touch people’s lives and hope to make a change. 🙂

There are lots of things i’m definitely thankful for… 2009 has given me a lot of blessings and lessons in life… i have experienced life the hard way and had lots of transitions but i am fortunate enough to make it through… i am thankful that i have 2 jobs to support my sisters’ schooling.. i am thankful that i have a healthy mind and body, and thankful that i do have a loving and supporting family.. and i could not ask for more..

I am thankful that my mom was able to have her double valve replacement heart surgery successfully this year and we were able to pay the hospital bills and the works by God’s grace. Now I am even more thankful that because of this, we are now spending more time with her than ever before. 🙂

I am thankful for the love of my friends and family, for the wonderful blessings I’ve received, for the talent in arts that God had given me, for the health of my grandma, for the presence of my 2 little nephews that makes the family happy.

i am thankful because i started openly celebrating who i am this year and my friends love and respect me even more for because of it. i am very happy to have met the one i will be with for the rest of my days.

1. A job that doesn’t require me to sit on my ass during the wee hours of the morning, simulating an American intonation with my social life and prime time National Geographic documentaries going down the miserable drain before me. All these just to get screamed at by some trailer park redneck from another time zone.

2. Winning a national poetry award for a four-line travel-themed poetry. This after the University of the Philippines’ Creative Writing Institute decided I don’t display enough writing prowess to be admitted to their graduate school program (I knew it. Bjorn and I should have peppered our try-out manuscripts with Marxist terminologies and burned our poignant poetries on nature and God before the University’s nude effigy).

3. Like-minded friends for the comedy and for being willing to perform various bizarre antics in the name of insanity, art and Bjork.

4. The bookstores which never grow tired of stacking up their shelves with great literature.

5. God and His promises.

6. Mommy and Daddy for supplying me with enough morbidity with their daily discussions on medical gore over breakfast (and for putting up with my tantrums).

I am thankful for the gift of being able to survive. 2009 has been my rockiest, most troubled year. It is the worst year of my life, and yet, I am still alive and I still manage to muster a smile or two. That’s what I’m thankful for.

I am thankful for finding love and keeping it (so far–fingers tightly crossed!); for making new friends and finding out which friends were not worth keeping; for making decisions and mistakes that honed me as a person; for attending weddings, taking plenty of pictures, making memories, and learning more not only from my MA classes, but also from everyone around me. I am thankful for laughter, for living, and for life! 🙂

So many things to be thankful for every day, every waking moment. Despite all of these,I’ve selected my top three!

1. I’m thankful that all my hard work in med school is finally gonna pay off! Three years of sleepless nights and hundreds of cups of coffee has passed. One more grueling year to go before graduation. *hopefully*

2. I’m thankful that I have found the one. Someone who respects me and loves every bit of me flaws and all. Someone who has made the past 27 months, the best months of my life. =)

3. I’m thankful that despite the countless mistakes I’ve made, in my heart I have no regrets. Because I know that if I hadn’t made any of them, I wouldn’t have learned how to make things right.

for the wonderful gift of opportunity to prove that i can make my existence valuable, for the countless times i have learned significant lessons, for the immeasurable support and love i recieved, for the pains and the glory, the ups and downs, for the strenght that kept me moving, for the humililty that held me grounded, for the simple joys-all these make 2009 a joyful and memorable year. and i am just as grateful as i am still here, about to embrace another year.

I am thankful for being financially independent from my parents. I have a decent part-time job (not call center:) that can support my schooling and daily expenses. I’ve never asked money from my parents now. I can even buy grocery and food for our family. It always make me feel good that finally I am making my own money. Aside from it I learn how to use my money wisely.
PS: Geez, that moleskine planner is soooo pretty.

I’m thankful that life has been better and not worse, thankful for the blessings that we have been receiving and lastly for people who give and not expecting anything in return, for being so selfless and gives that extra smile…….

* the moleskine!
* surviving a bad fall that cut my right eyebrow area
* finishing my MA coursework!
* experiencing wakeboarding & rapids rafting, 2 items in my bucketlist
* being able to sing for the funeral of Tita Cory and share in the country’s historical event of the year
* an opportunity to be seen singing in TV to be aired by January
* being chosen to be an important coordinator in Bukas Palad
* being loved and for me to fall in love again and consciously know what it really means
* learning to face difficult challenges with a stronger resolve and calmer disposition
* being wiser with choices and decisions in life (i’d like to believe so!)

I am grateful and thankful for having lived through all the trials that 2009 has brought our country, like ondoy and pepeng. I am thankful that I have food to eat, a house to live, a nice job and my family is still with me. 🙂

Despite us being greatly affected by typhoon Ondoy, I’m very grateful that I and my family were left unscratched, physically. We got out of the house when the water was just chest-level so we were saved. We lost all our material belongings during the flood and starting again was very difficult. I’m just very thankful that a lot of people really helped us to start anew. 🙂

I’m thankful for being able to say that i finished college with honors and without the absence of a social life. Haha! I’m also grateful for having an 8-month break before beginning work in January 2010. During my “bum days,” I got to travel to New Zealand and Vietnam, two very different but both beautiful countries. Lastly, I’m very thankful for all the wonderful people I have in my life.

I’m thankful for finally learning how to swim after 19 years which enabled me to touch fishes underwater for the first time and to swim with a pawikan! I’m also thankful that after 2 years of passing through college nonchalantly I have realized that taking academics seriously is cool! I am now over the skipping class phase, and is devotedly going to class everyday.

I’m thankful for so many things, I’m thankful that we sold our house this year, I’m thankful that I’ve become closer to my coursemates and active in my organizations. I’m thankful I got to go back to China and see my uncle and his family in Shanghai. I’m thankful breathing. I’m thankful that I survived 2nd year college. I’m so thankful for getting my own domain. 2009 is such a year full of ups and downs!

I’m thankful for God and my family who have been very supportive of me despite of lack of responsibility. I’m thankful for my friends, who never fails to paint a smile on my face whenever I’m feeling blue. I’m thankful that God gave me enough courage and strength to pass the first semester of my college life in flying colors. :))
I’m thankful for every opportunity I have everyday to improve myself. 🙂 I’m thankful for all the blessings that I received this year and for the years to come. 🙂 Hope I can win the planner. 🙂

What are you thankful for this 2009?
I am thankful for having another year of full of pure happiness with my husband and our wonderful gift our little bursting baby Levi. Nothing more to ask but a moleskin planner.

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I am very much thankful for having a great 2009. Thanks to the follwing:

1. to may family whose always been there for me.
2. my network friends, office friends and real friends for the chikahan and for the gala and byahe
3. my bosses, for promotion and salary increase 🙂
4. of course to our Almighty God , Thank you Lord

I am thankful that my family and I are in good health. With all that has happened this year (the recession, floods, etc.) I am grateful that no one has been harmed or has gotten sick in my family–and that we are all still together no matter what 🙂

I’m thankful for the unconditional love my mother has been generously giving me for the past 21 years of my life. Our relationship maybe far from perfect. And undeniably, we had our fair share of mother and daughter fight; but through out all of this, she has never failed to catch me whenever I find myself down on my knees. Those people whom I thought would always be there for me has turned their back without even bothering to give so much of a glance at me. But my mom, although we may have had exchange the most hurtful words one can imagine back in my Highschool days, had her arms stretched out for me so that I could rise up again and start anew. I’m sharing this not only to win the moleskin notebook, which i totally admire btw, but to honor my mama whom have molded me to be the best person I could ever be. My sharing maybe a little bit common or some would think as a cliche but for someone like me who has never shown my mama how earnestly thankful I am to God that he has given her to me as my mother, its quite a big deal. I love you mama. And although we are miles apart for the time being (for she is in Saudi Arabia right now with my dad and little sis), I want you to know that for this Christmas, I want to ask God to give me more golden times to spend with you. xoxo

There are so many reasons to be thankful this year. Some of these are constants like life, love, and learning. If I had to cite just one specific instance for 2009, however, it would have to be how my love for poetry was (re-)kindled this year through the work of Wallace Stevens. I’ve been reading his work for years, but it was only in 2009 when this interest bloomed into glorious obsession.

In 2009, I’m particularly thankful for the friends I regained/reconnected with; they helped me gain more perspective on things that I probably wouldn’t give attention to had they not pushed me in the right directions.

There’s this Swine Flu which affected the health, education and social lives of hundreds or even thousands of our fellows. The wrath of Ondoy which took the livelihood of so many. Their houses were flooded, their possessions and worst of all, the lives of their loved ones are lost in the blink of an eye which is so hard to believe because it didn’t happen for so many decades in Manila. And the latest happening that shocked everyone of us is the Maguindanao Massacre which happened few weeks ago. A massive killing of innocent civilians and those who are just doing their job rightfully.

It has been a year full of tears, misbelief, anger, disappointment, loss and pain. And mostly might have asked this to theirselves…

What is it that God has given me this year that I should thank for? A question hardly answered by many.

But some including me came to realize how fortunate i have become that this 2009 has been a blessing to me.

First is the threat of the disease that became a scare to most of us. I am working in a hospital full of sickly people. I havent used much of the mask and strong vitamins but still I, even my friends and family didnt contract the virus.

Then when Ondoy came to visit Manila, It was October 26 when my boyfriend called me in panic telling me that their things has been washed out by water. I was kinda confused because we are watching tv while it rains and nothing is happening. There’s even no flood in front of our house. and thankfully my love one wasnt hurt after.

And now here I am. Very well. Strong and fine. Working. and oh! just got my work this year before I forget. Its a blessing having a work these days right?

God’s protection towards my family and I is the greatest thing I am thankful for this year. And still hoping for more protection in 2010.

A Moleskine might be an aid to express my gratitude in every moment that i feel that I am truly blessed by the Lord.

May everyone of us find the happiness despite of the crisis we are facing. As long as we live. Its something we should thank for.

I am so thankful that I had overcome all obstacles brought by 2009 and thus I grew up and learned so much, but best of all is that i became so much happier than how I was for the past years. Now life for me is so amazing and I am thankful for every single day that passes me by.

I’m thankful for 2009 for a work promotion, an Elvis Costello concert, 2 overseas vacations, time off from work for the 2 overseas vacations, relative comfort, springing back after the storms, an operation, hormone medicines, great doctors — that means that I will be healthier for many years to come and of course, a wonderful family.

I’m grateful for quite a bit this year, family who’s always supportive and have become my friends along the way, friends who are always there and have become my family. I wrote more about it in my blog.

I’m thankful for:
>my adorable nieces and nephew who don’t forget their “tita Kissy” even after long absences;
>a great work team (and my boss returning to the Philippines, hurray!);
>good health of my family (especially my dad) and friends;
>my own flat;
>my free Moleskin 2009 planner from last year’s avalon.ph contest!

What am I thankful for this 2009? Simply being able to get through it sane, alive, and in one piece, when in fact a number of Filipinos will not be able to witness the new dawn that 2010 shall (hopefully) bring. And to all of them, I offer my prayers and a promise that I will not let their sufferings and death go to waste.

This contest/sweepstakes will run from December 1, 12:01am until December 15, 9:00pm Manila time. Sweepstakes is only open for those with a Philippine-based address that’s serviceable by major couriers.